"I am pleased that the Acting Assistant Secretary overturned one of the last-minute out-the-door policies of the Trump administration."
"I am pleased to have the Corps and the other entities before us today to talk about protecting the environment, investing in science, and putting real money toward our crumbling infrastructure."
"We have lost--irrevocably--resources, and we are losing them every day to inappropriate development because of the total loss of protections under the Trump rule for up to 80 percent of our waterways ..."
"One other issue missing from the last administration was significant community engagement that included all communities, including Native American communities."
"I would say, if the generals who are getting that wonderful free housing with a great view of Hains Point are concerned about security, it would be more appropriate to put up a fence, or a wall--but t..."
"The last administration acted with particular malice towards our environment, consistently under-funding critical EPA programs and personnel and working to dismantle or weaken over 100 environmental l..."
"We need to be prepared if the Corps is going to need allocations in those fiscal year budgets to move forward."
"The jetty is deteriorating. And as the general knows, the deterioration starts, and when we get 35-foot seas in the winter, it accelerates at a rapid rate."
"I believe that this is not the solution to whatever problem they have. And I do believe it will lead to very dire problems."
"I live on a boat in DC, in the channel leading out of what has now become the trendiest, most congested neighborhood in DC."
"The Columbia River Treaty. It has expired. It was the first cross-border beneficial use of water treaty in the world."